
Originally Posted by
brosis
Bitcoin is a payment / monetary system, it is not "economy".
It does nothing beyond exchanging money and securing the stack using processing power of volunteers.
The volunteer efforts are compensated from payment transactions.
The amount of compensation is tied up to amount of virtual currency, so that the more people help secure the system, the less compensation they get and vice versa.
Should you have further questions, do not hesitate to read Wikipedia article on "Electronic money".